Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, for...

I am delighted to follow the noble Lord. I would like to speak briefly to Amendments 1, 2, 4, 10,...

My Lords, I would just add, in respect of Amendment 37, that we are rightly chary of imposing ret...

My Lords, I am going to speak quite a lot of times today. I do not really want to apologise for t...

My Lords, I rather wish this Bill were called the “Authorised Criminal Conduct Bill”. I find it v...

My Lords, I can be very brief, because others have put the point so well and also because of the ...

As drafted, the Bill refers to criminal conduct as conduct

“in the course of, or otherwise ...

My Lords, having made my maiden remarks at Second Reading, it is a pleasure now to assist the Hou...

I have received no requests to speak after the Minister, so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady H...

My Lords, I start by apologising to the noble Lord, Lord Cormack: I do not like the term CHIS eit...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 3. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

3: Clause 1, page 1, leave out line 17

Member’s e...

My Lords, Amendment 3 is linked to Amendment 5, which is at the nub of all this. I am supported i...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and support the amendm...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 3 and 5, to which I have added my name alongside those of th...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Warsi, and I share her abhor...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford. I love these two am...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow the speakers before me, who have such a range of experience. ...

My Lords, on the evidence I see great merit in these amendments. Our history of criminal law show...

My Lords, it is a particular pleasure for me to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Hendy and the noble and learned L...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, said in her opening remarks, these amendments ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, who brings experience that non...

My Lords, Amendments 3 and 5 from the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, seek, as she said, to mai...

I have received one request, so far, to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Pad...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord for his remarks. He is right that there is widesprea...

My Lords, the noble Lord clearly heard what I said about the view that we have lost intelligence ...

This Committee has made it a privilege to be a Member of your Lordships’ House, which today I hav...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

6: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, at end insert—

“(3A) In sec...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 6, in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee, I will speak...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, with his eloquence and experie...

My Lords, I am also a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, along with my noble friend L...

My Lords, I have considerable sympathy with the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, in movin...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, and the others who have tabled amendments in this...

My Lords, we are indeed fortunate to have working for us, in both Houses, the Joint Committee on ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, has withdrawn so I call the noble Lord, Lord Ander...

My Lords, this group of amendments focuses on compensation for crimes committed pursuant to a cri...

My Lords, I can be brief on this group—because I gave my views on the importance of removing both...

I am delighted to follow my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti, who has made a real contribution to th...

My Lords, Amendments 6 and 8 seek to remove the exemption from civil liability for CHIS criminal ...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falco...

It is new, because CHIS conduct under the existing Bill significantly did not include criminal co...

The remedy lies in the approach to the tribunal and the obligation on the commissioner to notify ...

Can the Minister confirm that the totally innocent victim can go to the Investigatory Powers Trib...

I am happy to confirm that.

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. In speaking to the com...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 7. I remind noble Lords that anyone w...

Moved by

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

7: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, at end insert—...

My Lords, I support both amendments in this group; obviously, I particularly support Amendment 7,...

My Lords, obviously, a government agency cannot grant to an individual immunity from prosecution ...

My Lords, I lend my support to Amendment 7 as a probing amendment, which was so eloquently moved ...

My Lords, this is an interesting pair of amendments, because they go to the territorial extent of...

The noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, points out an enormous sensitivity, in relation not just to ext...

My Lords, Amendment 6 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, and our amendment, are dir...

Amendment 7 in this group would ensure that criminal conduct authorisations are not covered by th...

Lord Rosser, we are losing you—we cannot hear you.

I think we might have lost connection with the noble Lord, Lord Rosser. If he can hear us and for...

I now call the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Trafford.

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. I am sorry not to have heard the end ...

My Lords, I think we have managed to re-establish connection with the noble Lord, Lord Rosser.